Word: physician
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When Lynette Sylvester weighed 259 lbs., she hated Jane Fonda. The movie star was everything that Sylvester, 42, wanted to be and wasn't: among other things, svelte and athletic. In fact, Sylvester's weight problem had become so severe that her physician recommended she have her stomach stapled. "I realized that if I didn't change my behavior, I would die," recalls the store owner from Burnsville, Minn. Determined, she went on a liquid-protein diet and lost 120 lbs. Now, a year later, down from a size 44 dress to size 10, Sylvester regards Fonda as her personal...
BOSTON--The number of doctors practicing in Massachusetts has risen in the last decade, according to a new study of physician supply, meaning that reports of medicine's demise in the Bay State may be premature...
...report was presented this week to the state's Special Commission to Study Physician Shortages in Massachusetts, which was established earlier this year under the universal health care law. A spokesperson for the commission's chairperson, Human Services Secretary Philip Johnston, said the study was under review, along with other materials...
...William Schwartz of Tufts Medical School, a national expert on physician supply issues, welcomed the study but emphasized its limitations...
...former physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania may have outdone most of his colleagues. Martin Spector was fined $35,200 and sentenced to 1600 hours of community service for selling stolen body parts...